Words Of The Week 3

Question 1

Tenement

Answer 1

A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety

Question 2

Union

Answer 2

An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages

Question 3

Muckrakers

Answer 3

Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public

Question 4

Progressive Era

Answer 4

Time at the turn of the 20th century in which groups sought to reform America economically (money), socially (talking with groups of people), and politically (government wise)

Question 5

Gilded Age

Answer 5

1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics and growing gap between the rich and poor

Question 6

Monopoly

Answer 6

Complete control of a product or business by one person or group

Question 7

Robber Barons

Answer 7

Refers to the industrials or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages, and drove their competitors out of business

Question 8

Captain of industry

Answer 8

Industrial leaders who transformed the American economy with their business skills

Question 9

Laissez-faire

Answer 9

Idea that government should play as small a role as possible economic affairs

Question 10

Entrepreneur

Answer 10

A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a buisness

Question 11

Urbanization

Answer 11

Movement of people from rural areas to cities